Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-06-01

botanical and practical knowledge
OF the care of the kitchen and flower
garden. There is science in bread
making, so any daughter should know
not only the process, but the chem
istry OF bread. There is skill and
philosophy in cooking meat, so it
should be thoroughly known by every
woman who expects to stand at the
head of g. household, either humble or
magnificent. Butter making can no
longer be successfully conducted by
the mere drudge. Science and mind
must preside over the household dairy.
There are too many precious lives in
trusted to the female heads OF families
for them to be ignorant of physiology
and the best principles OF hygiene.
The schools should be the place where
to learn to live, and this includes the
practical application Of science to
health and happiness.
Wealth will not exempt any one
from o knowledge of domestic econo-
my. Household help is g. difficult
problem to solve, but it is a thousand
times more complicated when the
wife and mother is ignorant Of those
duties, and consequently its direction
and superintendent is impossible.
Who does not pity theyoung and low
ing wife, when first assuming the du-
ties OF housekeeper, with uncertain
and ignorant help in the kitchen,
laundry or dairy? There can be but
few if any more trying or perplexing
situations. In this country help CAN
not always be had, no matter how
flush the money. At other times the
cook is absent, their independence
gives them insolence, and in many
cases they will leave just at an impor-
tant time in the affairs of the house
hold. Then if the wife has not been
prepared for her situation in life her
position is awkward and embarrass-
ing in the extreme. A daughter, no
matter how well educated or how in
dependent her circumstances, knows
not whether she is destined to be the
mistress Of the household of farmer,
artisan, merchant or professional man.
Or whether she is to direct the affairs
of plenty in g. splendid mansion Or to
suffer in humble cot, away from the
busy haunts of commerce. In either
case she should be prepared for her
situation, and thus be enabled to
bring cheerfulness and prosperity to
her household.
How often is it the case that the
house is left without domestic help,
and there is no resource left but to
rely on the wife? Such instances are
all around us, in town and on farms.
Again, how often we are compelled to
rely on raw hands who are totally ig-
norant of the duties of kitchen or
laundry, and if the wife is not capable
of instructing or directing, how poor q
helpmeet woman must be who CAN
not, In such an emergency, produce
the staff of life, and that, too, of q
quality to make her husband prouder
of her than any other part Of her life.
There is but little good bread in all
the private families of the country, for
the reason that but few have consid-
cred it of sufficient Importance to
study the science of bread-making.
Girls will go to school and learn hard
lessons in science, with neither Orna-
ment nor benefit, and remain ignorant
OF the most important part OF their
LIES duties and position. The Arabs
grant divorce for ignorance IN bread
making. There is probably as much
misery and as many deaths from bad
bread as from war, and yet intelligent
women boldly approach the marriage
altar totally ignorant OF the import
ant qualifications of the head Of g.
family, of wife or mother. A lack
of knowledge OF domestic economy in
q woman is q serious defect which no
amount Of culture in all other
branches OF refinement can compen-
safe. 1t is honorable, refining and
essential. 1t saves from many morti-
flying scenes. It's absence frequently
causes trouble, alienation and dis
aster. Cultivator.